Of Mice & Men Guitarist Implies Code Orange Ripped-Off Norma Jean; Code Orange Issue Polite Retort
If there’s one thing I know about bands, it’s that they don’t like it when you suggest they lack originality. So I’m not really sure what Of Mice & Men guitarist Alan Ashby thought Code Orange’s response would be when he recently tweeted this:
If code orange should’ve won a grammy then Norma Jean should’ve won a grammy back in the day?????
— Alan Ashby (@AlanAshby) January 30, 2018
Ashby would later claim this tweet wasn’t an insult. That would be a difficult argument to make under any circumstances, but doubly so given that when a fan admonished Ashby for his unprovoked comment, he shared a story which he clearly intended to be offensive to Code Orange:
Once while watching them sidestage their bass player threw his bass then screamed at @philipmanansala to get him a new one hahahhaha so i gotta stick up for my dude! That was WACK!
— Alan Ashby (@AlanAshby) January 31, 2018
In this context, Code Orange’s concise rejoinders to Ashby’s tweets were about as surprising as the fact that the sun came up this morning:
https://twitter.com/codeorangekids/status/958535128212430849
https://twitter.com/codeorangekids/status/958648599126065155
Sumerian Records founder Ash Avildsen then weighed in with his opinion, in which he called Code Orange “awesome” even as he acknowledged the influence of Norma Jean on their sound. Ashby took this as an opportunity to feign surprise at the culinary selection Code Orange made on his behalf:
Right! It wasn’t a diss… just pointing out the similarity (in my opinion) of music, grammy situation. But now i must eat shit ????
— Alan Ashby (@AlanAshby) January 31, 2018
Oh, cry me a fucking river, dude. It was too a diss. You already admitted it was a diss! Maybe not as much of a diss as, say, “I’d rather listen to Insane Clown Posse than Of Mice & Men, because at least ICP has some comedy value,” but it’s still a diss. So stop pretending to be innocent and starting chowing down on that sammy. Mmm. Just like mom used to make.
[via Rock Feed]
